David Haase Joins Sonenshine Partners As a Managing Director
Company Press Release
January 25, 2009

New York, N.Y. - Sonenshine Partners, a leading independent investment bank, announced today that David Haase will be joining the firm as a Managing Director. Mr Haase specializes in restructurings and leveraged finance.

Prior to joining Sonenshine Partners, Mr. Haase lead-managed over 150 leveraged financings for both corporate issuers and private equity sponsors over the course of the last 20 years.  During this period, he has advised both debtors and creditor committees across a broad range of industries. Before joining the firm, he was a Managing Director at Wachovia Securities in the Leveraged Finance Group and a Director at JPMorgan Chase in High Yield Capital Markets, focusing on troubled company capital raises and restructurings.  Prior to JPMorgan Chase, Mr. Haase was at CSFirst Boston, focusing on Restructurings and leveraged finance transactions for troubled companies.

Mr. Haase has extensive experience executing exchange offers, pre and post Chapter 11 advisory and financings and workouts for companies across a broad range of industries.  His focus has been on both creditor and debtor representation.  He has advised and executed financings, exchange offers and restructurings for Fortune 500 companies as well as smaller middle market clients.  Mr. Haase has also advised both sponsor-owned clients and corporates.  Representative clients and transactions (both financing and restructuring) include Southland Corp’s (7-11 convenience stores) pre-packaged Chapter 11, KKR’s acquisition of Willis Corroon, Hollinger Inc. financings and subsequent restructuring, Chiquita, NBTY, Mediacom, Allied Waste, Landry’s, Movie Gallery, Rogers Communications, and MTS Tower Records financings and restructurings.

Mr. Haase holds a BA from Brown University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. 

"We are delighted to welcome David Haase to Sonenshine Partners.  We see Mr. Haase’s expertise in restructurings as a significant asset for our firm in the current environment," said Marshall Sonenshine, Chairman of Sonenshine Partners.

Sonenshine Partners is a leading independent investment bank focused on providing integrated strategic, financial and corporate advisory services.  The firm was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in New York City.